President Joe Biden is facing growing pressure to commute the sentences of the more than three dozen inmates sitting on federal death row before President-elect Donald Trump, a death penalty proponent, enters the White House.
Since losing the election, Biden has received an influx of calls from activists pleading with him to grant the commutations, which would prevent the near certain executions of several of the 40 death row inmates who would be eligible for execution once Trump takes office.
Joe Biden’s controversial move to pardon his son Hunter Biden and reports that he is mulling pardons for Trump’s political nemeses have served to bolster the clemency calls.
Andrew Fleischman, an Atlanta-based defense lawyer, said he supports Joe Biden granting clemency to the death row inmates, noting that the death penalty has no public safety benefit and uses enormous…
